National Legal Resources

A strategic guide to litigation readiness, addressing how business organizations can establish and embed a business process for responding to discovery.

Employment trials differ from other civil cases and applying traditional strategies can lead to costly missteps. Employment Law Trials: A Guide for Employer-Side Attorneys helps litigators avoid these pitfalls by clarifying common misconceptions about discrimination, spotlighting key decisionmaker remarks, and guiding effective trial preparation to improve courtroom outcomes.

This publication is a hands-on guide for energy project/facility developers and their professional and financial advisors. It covers the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and its key objectives and impact on project finance, prohibited foreign entity rules, material assistance rules, and investment tax credits.  In addition, it covers clean energy project development and various tax credit incentives, providing detailed practical overviews of the relevant: (1) contract structures and negotiations relating to wholesale and interconnection agreements, power purchase agreements, and offtake structures; (2) regulatory issues (SEC, CFTC, DOE and FERC) of project finance transactions such as trading electricity, renewable energy certificates, offset and allowance futures and options, and debt financing; (3) risk management and mitigation relating to insuring projects, and protections against bankruptcy and insolvency; and (4) clean energy tax credits and monetization in the United States. 

Enforcing Environmental Penalties is a national guide to the legal mechanisms used to enforce environmental laws in the United States. Written for legal practitioners, regulators, corporate counsel and environmental professionals, this treatise delivers detailed analysis of civil, administrative and criminal enforcement under key federal statutes.

Essentials of Patent Claim Drafting, by Morgan D. Rosenberg, covers the actual mechanics of assembling both basic and complex claims from simple mechanical cases to complex chemical and pharmaceutical cases. The claims of a patent application are, in many ways, the most important part of the application. The claims define the legal scope of patent protection granted by an issued patent, and also determine the course of the patent prosecution process. A properly drafted patent claim must take into account technical breadth, legal strategy, and conformance with U.S. statutory law, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office guidelines, and over a hundred years of case law.

Evidentiary Foundations provides sample lines of questioning that demonstrate how to lay the foundation for admitting various kinds of evidence. It also includes a brief discussion of the underlying legal principles, based on modern common law and the applicable Federal Rules of Evidence.

Executive Compensation provides in-depth analysis of executive pay structures, including salary, bonuses, equity awards and deferred compensation, with practical guidance on tax treatment, regulatory compliance and governance for corporate counsel, compensation committees and HR leaders.

False Advertising and the Lanham Act by Thomas M. Williams covers established precedent and Section 43(a) false advertising case law, including key decisions where courts have developed essential analytical tools to flesh out sparse statutory language.

Family and Medical Leave Act provides comprehensive coverage of FMLA, which Congress created to balance the needs of workplace and family.

Indispensable explanation, analysis and guidance on the tax issues unique to agricultural clients.